The Reign of Charlemagne: Considered Chiefly with Reference to Religion, Laws, Literature, and MannersLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - 208 pagine |
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Pagina 207 - First, including a concise Review of the Manners and Customs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Pagina 106 - Great, who flourished towards the end of the 6th century. The music of the church in earlier times was founded on the Greek system, as far as it could be used, which was improved from time to time, until St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, in the 4th c. invented the Ambrosian chant.
Pagina 141 - This singular conduct immediately arrested his attention ; he ordered them to be presented to him, and having found that they really could perform what they had professed, afterwards promoted them to posts of trust and honor, suitable to their abilities. There is not certainly a more striking feature in the character of Charlemagne than his uniform encouragement of men x>f genius, both in the church and state.
Pagina 60 - ... construction. It had twelve gates, corresponding to the twelve hours. " When the hour was striking on the clock, one of the gates opened itself, from which proceeded a regular number of small brass balls ; and these, by falling in turn on a brazen vessel, marked the hour by the noise which they thus caused : the eye perceived the hour by the number of opened gates, and the ear by the number of falling balls. At the twelfth hour, twelve small horsemen issued out, each through its gate, and closed...
Pagina 204 - ... but in his institutions I can seldom discover the general views and the immortal spirit of a legislator, who survives himself for the benefit of posterity.
Pagina 116 - ... discrimination of merit in the ecclesiastics of his kingdom, and a disposition to reward it, as is demonstrated by the following anecdote : — Having received intelligence of the death of a bishop, he inquired how much of his property he had bequeathed to the poor ; the answer was, two pounds of silver ; upon which a young clerk exclaimed, " That is but a very small provision for so great a voyage." Charlemagne, pleased with the observation, instantly said to him, " Be thou his successor, but...
Pagina 138 - If he had not sounded the depths, he had at least stepped into most paths of learning, and therefore was eminently qualified, from the versatility of his genius and the penetration of his judgment, to form and develope the taste of Charlemagne for the arts and sciences. In the study of logic, rhetoric, and astronomy, subjects that have such a peculiar tendency to sharpen, enlarge, and elevate the human capacity, Alcuin found a pupil whose high birth and almost invariable attention to the affairs...
Pagina 142 - EiipanJ, a bishop of Spain, in a theological dispute with him, takes the opportunity to utter some severe reproaches upon his overgrown opulence ; but authentic evidence is not war.ting to rescue the memory of Alcuin from the charge of his mind beincj corrupted by prosperity.
Pagina 27 - In all the trade of war no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat, For those that run away and fly Take place at least of the enemy. (9) He that runs may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.